Dan joined Oyster’s Newport office in 2011 following a career with a leading international brokerage. Prior to coming ashore he held various positions aboard, starting in 2003 and culminating with his captaincy of S/Y Argo, a 110’ Langan Design Schooner. While at sea, Dan completed crossings of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and accumulated over 50,000 miles of blue-water cruising experience, including extensive landfalls and oversight of several major refits. Dan is married with a young son and resides in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Will grew up in Bristol, Rhode Island and from a young age spent every free moment out on the water. Later he worked his way up from deckhand to engineer and finally captain. After running an Oyster 56 for Oyster’s founder, Richard Matthews, Will joined our USA office in Newport, Rhode Island, and has spent the last 17 years helping our US based owners with their commissioning and customer service enquiries.
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Having started sailing on the east coast from an early age, Richard progressed from racing dinghies and keelboats into ocean sailing, and can now often be found assisting our owners at various regattas and events around the world. Having worked within various sectors of the marine industry since leaving university, Richard has a background of yachting experience that greatly assists his ability to guide clients with credible knowledge and advice.
Stephen joined Oyster in 2002 following a career in finance. Initially working in our After Sales department, he then progressed into Project Management before joining the Sales team in 2013. A keen sailor with over 30,000 miles under his belt, Stephen has a wealth of Oyster knowledge and his passion and enthusiasm make him a key member of the new boat Sales team. Stephen also enjoys family life with two young daughters.
Dan joined Oyster’s Newport office in 2011 following a career with a leading international brokerage. Prior to coming ashore he held various positions aboard, starting in 2003 and culminating with his captaincy of S/Y Argo, a 110’ Langan Design Schooner. While at sea, Dan completed crossings of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and accumulated over 50,000 miles of blue-water cruising experience, including extensive landfalls and oversight of several major refits. Dan is married with a young son and resides in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Bitten by the sailing bug when he was 10 years old, Michael has since spent as much time on the water as possible. His expertise is founded on hundreds of thousands of nautical miles, covered on many world-wide regattas. These include 12 Sydney to Hobarts (one of the toughest yacht races in the world) and the Fastnet twice. He has also taken part in the America’s Cup and Admiral’s Cup, crossed the Atlantic and cruised widely in the Pacific Ocean. Michael has worked in the USA and Australia as a yacht builder and has also created masts and riggings for yachts around the globe. Based in Sydney, Australia, he has worked in luxury boat sales for over 20 years. Michael is married with four children.
Jamie joined Oyster Brokerage having run a well established brokerage office in Palma for four years. Having worked in the Marine trade since he was 18, Jamie has raced all over the world competing in the Admirals Cup to winning Key West Race Week. More recently sailing on the Superyacht Cup circuit where the racing is of a more leisurely style. Other than racing he has acquired an in-depth knowledge of sailing yachts, sails and hardware from working with some of the best in the industry.
Rupert has more than twenty years’ experience selling pre-owned Oyster yachts with Oyster Brokerage. He was taught to sail by his uncle Sir Robin Knox-Johnston back in the 1980s.
Lani, a native German speaker, has worked for Oyster for over 22 years and built up a wealth of experience and knowledge during that time in her support roles. Her love for boats and the water have meant holidays were spent exploring the calmer waters of the UKs inland waterways.
Over the years Ali has sailed over 25,000 miles, has always had a busy programme of both private and charter usage, with ever-changing scenery, one of which briefly involved embracing the rolling seas in South East Asia on a 30m Jongert spotting offshore oil rigs.
Dan joined Oyster’s Newport office in 2011 following a career with a leading international brokerage. Prior to coming ashore he held various positions aboard, starting in 2003 and culminating with his captaincy of S/Y Argo, a 110’ Langan Design Schooner. While at sea, Dan completed crossings of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and accumulated over 50,000 miles of blue-water cruising experience, including extensive landfalls and oversight of several major refits. Dan is married with a young son and resides in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Fiona hails from Dublin, Ireland, and grew up sailing in Dublin Bay and the Northern Loughs. She read Chemical Oceanography at Southampton University before she embarked on her career as an Oceanographer in Bermuda.
Her passion for yachting soon took her out to sea again, and she went on to work on yachts (predominantly sailing yachts) for 15 years as Chef, Mate and Purser. This has given Fiona an extensive knowledge of superyachts as well as many fantastic cruising areas including the Eastern and Western Mediterranean, the Caribbean, the Bahamas, East Coast USA and Pacific Mexico.
Her experience afloat gives her great insight into putting together the perfect charter for you.
Fiona joins us after nearly seven years as a charter broker with Fraser Yachts in Palma.
Allie raced around the world and upwind through the Southern Ocean and has sailed over 50,000 miles. She is now on a much calmer route as Oyster World Rally Director. Allie has over 30 years of experience working in Operations and Logistics in the sailing industry and has worked alongside some of the UK's top sailors and yachting greats. She has managed events worldwide and has been involved in some of the most prestigious international yacht races personally and professionally. She also ran her own RYA Sailing School for 13 years teaching novices to sail and race. Allie is super excited to lead the Oyster World Rally team and support the dreams of those participating in the Oyster World Rallies.
Millie has been in the Oyster family for over 8 years having spent 3 years crewing Oyster Yachts professionally, including the Oyster World Rally 2017-19. For the past 5 years Millie has been creating unique and memorable experiences for the Oyster family, running Oyster Regattas, Rendezvous and special dinners, and looks forward to seeing you at an Oyster event very soon.
Rachel caught the sailing bug from her Grandad and has worked in the sailing industry since 2014. She has helped numerous Oyster owners as part of our world-famous Oyster After Sales team for the last three years. Before this, she delivered boats, ran charters, crewed on Oyster yachts and took part in the last Oyster World Rally as crew on two Oyster 575s – Miss Tiggy and Ayesha II. Rachel takes great pride in helping people achieve their dreams. She is part of the Oyster Support Team and is looking forward to looking after the fleet as it makes its way around the world.
Dee runs the After Sales department and has worked for Oyster for over 15 years, with 22 years experience in the marine industry. Having lived in Guernsey and South Africa Dee relocated to Norfolk to work for Oyster in Wroxham 8 years ago, previously working for Oyster in Ipswich.
She enjoys the challenges that After Sales are faced with on a daily basis and building up relationships with owners and skippers. Dee is passionate about supporting our Oyster owners and with the help of her team who are based in Wroxham, Ipswich and Southampton and endeavour to deliver a first class service. With over 500 Oyster yachts that use the After Sales service from 45 year old boats to new boats the department is extremely busy. She prides herself with the fact that Oyster owners get constant support throughout their ownership.
Mark Durham joined the Oyster team after working as a Yacht Captain for 12 years. In addition to over 100,000 sea-miles, including the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, he brings with him the experience of having sailed and run a number of private and charter yachts worldwide. Mark ensures the satisfaction of both owners and crew as Head of Service Operations in Palma de Mallorca.
Steve has enjoyed boating from a very early age and came into the Marine Industry in the early 90`s following premature retirement after 18 years as a Firefighter. Initially with Splashdown Marine Clothing and Simpson-Lawrence, he joined Hunton Powerboats in 1998 as installation engineer, becoming General Manager in 2002. Joining the Oyster Service & Refit Department in 2011, he has been responsible for a number of major refit projects across the Oyster range both in the Southampton yard and overseas. Steve joined the Palma team as Service Manager as of the 1st August 2017.
Will grew up in Bristol, Rhode Island and from a young age spent every free moment out on the water. Later he worked his way up from deckhand to engineer and finally captain. After running an Oyster 56 for Oyster’s founder, Richard Matthews, Will joined our USA office in Newport, Rhode Island, and has spent the last 17 years helping our US based owners with their commissioning and customer service enquiries.
Charlie first met Oyster in 2002 as crew on an adventurous world-cruising Oyster 66. After 30,000+ cruising miles in some remote parts of the world including Cape Horn and Antarctica followed by several years of crewing on Med-Caribbean charter sailing yachts, she has a rounded insight into the luxury yachting and crewing industry.
Charlie joined the Oyster Palma team in 2014 and has worked in a variety of departments firstly assisting in Brokerage and running the Palma Regatta, then moving to set up the Oyster Crew service in 2017. She is now dedicated to helping Oyster Owners and potential crew candidates in their search for crew or employment on Oyster yachts.
